“What Could Have Been and Was Not.”
The above is a picture I recently took while walking and praying my Divine Office (Psalms) at a rather-empty beach in Florida. It always brings me so much peace. Most of you do not know this, but several times in seminary I felt called to leave my studies for the Catholic priesthood and go live as a homeless, celibate, Catholic preacher in front of abortion centers in Florida. I felt called to live as a mendicant (beggar) without marriage, but also without Holy Orders. Now as a priest doing some of those things as a monk-missionary on my own, I have also been overwhelmed by the issues of politics that [...]